February 27, 2015, 1:15PM

The Western Massachusetts Education Leaders Coalition, organized last year by administrators increasingly alarmed by a panoply of state initiatives - that they say the government fails to adequately fund -- won another convert to their cause Tuesday when the school board here unanimously approved the group's mission statement. Full story »

February 27, 2015, 10:55AM

Vargas, who was driving the car, was taken to Baystate Medical Center for hypothermia and a possible drug overdose with one other man after being apprehended by state police, court documents said. Baystate officials said he had been discharged from the hospital Thursday. Full story »

February 26, 2015, 8:17PM

"The cost of continuing the fight was simply too great, and Dr. Dobelle determined that the right thing to do for students, faculty and alumni of Westfield State University is that this matter end," Dobelle's lawyer, Ross H. Garber, said after the motion to dismiss was filed. Full story »